Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB3
Introduced
1/3/25
Introduced
4/9/25
Refer
1/3/25
Engrossed
4/10/25
Refer
4/15/25
This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 3. This Act differs from Senate Bill No. 3. in that it incorporates technical corrections made to the Delaware Constitution by House Bill No. 10 (153rd General Assembly).
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB30
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/15/25
This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2026 Bond and Capital Improvements Act.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB31
Introduced
1/3/25
Refer
1/3/25
Refer
3/12/25
Section 1 of this Act increases the burial benefit for individuals receiving a pension under the State Employees Pension Plan (Chapter 55 of Title 29 of the Delaware Code) from $7,000 to $10,000. The amount of this benefit has not been increased since 2001 (See 73 Del. Laws, c. 146, ยง 5).
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB32
Introduced
1/3/25
Refer
1/3/25
Refer
1/30/25
Engrossed
6/10/25
This Act allows for correctional officers and probation and parole officers employed with the Department of Correction to make a written request that their personal information not be published and remain confidential. The Act takes effect 180 days after its enactment to allow for implementation.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB33
Introduced
1/3/25
Refer
1/3/25
Engrossed
5/14/25
Refer
5/15/25
This Act builds on the success of the Downtown Development Districts Act, Chapter 19 of Title 22 of the Delaware Code, by permitting a municipality with a population of 30,000 or more in the 2020 federal census, which includes Wilmington, Dover, and Newark, to designate an area in the municipality as a "Downtown Development Corridor".
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB34
Introduced
1/3/25
Refer
1/3/25
This Act allows a tenant to terminate a rental agreement early if they are purchasing a home by providing 30 days' written notice to the landlord. The 30-day period begins on the first day of the month after the day the notice is given. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual. This Act updates language for group or cooperative living facility and retirement home to the definition of long-term care facility in ยง1102 of Title 16. And this Act removes references to subsidized public or private housing from ยง 5314(b)(3) of Title 25 because it is repeated in ยง 5314(b)(4) of Title 25.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB35
Introduced
1/3/25
Refer
1/3/25
Refer
3/27/25
Agriculture is currently the leading industry in Delaware but as housing and other development occurs less farmland becomes available. For farmers in general, but in particular the small and medium sized farm owners, the real estate taxes imposed on their farm structures imposes a significant financial impact and adversely affects their ability to survive. At least eighteen other states have recognized this problem and have through legislation provided real estate tax relief for qualified farm structures. This legislation would use the same mechanism for providing real estate tax relief for qualified farm structures as it currently exists for qualified farmlands.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB36
Introduced
1/3/25
Refer
1/3/25
This Act requires dealers to offer car buyers the opportunity to purchase a contract cancellation option agreement. The contract cancellation option agreement must allow buyers to cancel a car purchase no less than 3 business days after the dealer delivers the car to the buyer. The cost of the contract cancellation option is based on the cash sale price of the car. A dealer may also charge a restocking fee, based on the cash sale price, if a consumer cancels the car purchase. But the cost of the contract cancellation option must be credited to any restocking fee. If a consumer chooses to buy a car at the end of a lease and then exercises a contract cancellation option, a dealer may charge to that consumer any amount that would have been due under the lease for excess mileage, unrepaired damage, and excess wear and tear. The dealer must keep any trade-in motor vehicles through the end of the cancellation period.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB37
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
This Act creates a right to free legal counsel for a relative seeking to adopt a child in the relatives family after parental rights over the child have been terminated and the child is in the custody of the Delaware Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families. Relatives of a child for whom adoption is being sought who are eligible for free legal counsel in adoption proceedings include siblings, grandparents, uncles, aunts, first cousins, first cousins once removed, great-grandparents, grandaunts or granduncles, half-siblings, stepparents, stepsiblings, stepaunts or stepuncles, or stepgrandparents.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB38
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Engrossed
3/25/25
Refer
3/26/25
This Act provides financial support to owners who adopt a horse that retired from serving with the Department of Correction, State or Capitol police, the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, or the Office of the State Fire Marshal. The owners of these retired-law enforcement horses may be reimbursed up to $3,000 annually for veterinary care expenses and farrier services paid by the owner for the care of the retired law-enforcement horse. The Department that the retired law-enforcement horse assisted shall issue veterinary care and farrier services reimbursements and promulgate regulations to create a reimbursement process for retired law-enforcement horses.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB39
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Engrossed
5/6/25
Refer
5/7/25
This Act amends the Charter of the Town of Selbyville (Selbyville) by doing all of the following:
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB4
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
3/26/25
Engrossed
5/22/25
Refer
6/5/25
This Act establishes an independent and nonpartisan Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and the position of the Inspector General. Under this Act, the OIG would be unique in state government as a non-political agency with a sole mission to investigate and prevent fraud, waste, mismanagement, corruption, and other abuse of governmental resources. The OIG will protect the health and safety of Delaware residents, assist in the recovery of misspent or inappropriately paid funds, and strengthen government integrity and the public trust in government operations by doing all of the following:
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB40
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
3/12/25
Engrossed
5/20/25
Refer
5/21/25
Refer
6/11/25
Section 1 of this Act makes a pattern or practice of violations by a landlord of a Manufactured Home Community of subchapters I through V of Chapter 70 of Title 25 of the Delaware Code, or a provision of a rental agreement, an unlawful practice under the Consumer Fraud Act, subchapter II, Chapter 70, of Title 25, under specified circumstances.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB41
Introduced
2/20/25
Refer
2/20/25
This Act is a substitute for Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 41.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB42
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
1/14/25
Engrossed
1/21/25
Refer
1/22/25
Enrolled
1/30/25
Passed
2/7/25
After enactment of Senate Substitute No. 1 to Senate Bill No. 174 of the 152nd General Assembly (Chapter 446 of Volume 84 of the Laws of Delaware), it was discovered that Senate Substitute No. 1 to Senate Bill No. 174 would, if implemented, jeopardize the qualified federal tax status of the Delaware Public Employees Retirement System by giving individuals who are Justices of the Peace, Commissioners of the Superior Court, Family Court, and Court of Common Pleas (Commissioners), and Magistrates in Chancery (Magistrates), as of the effective date, an election to participate in the Judicial Pension Plan at a different rate of pre-tax contribution than presently required for those individuals under the State Employees Pension Plan (3% or 5%, depending on start date). Based on this information, the Board of Pension Trustees voted unanimously on December 10, 2024, to delay implementation of Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 174.